[Yaesu] FTdx-100
Walter A. Hutchens
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2002年1月21日 17:47:08 -0500
This is indeed a very cool little radio -- an astonishingly good performer for
the time and many miles ahead of anything being made in the U.S. in the late
60's. It is the parent of the FT-101 and except for lower power (50w PEP
out on SSB) fairly similar in performance. The construction is 'boxy' and
many mechanical details are similar to the FTdx-400-series but the internal
design is completely different; the 400-series are the last gasp of mostly
vacuum tube designs at Yaesu, while the FTdx-100 is an infant -101.
This is the radio on which Yaesu learned that plug-in boards would be
needed; basically everything is on a flat chassis with the small parts and
circuit board buried under other stuff. It's a four-star bitch to work on.
I have been seeing only one or two of these a year but perhaps someone
with a more ambitious hamfest schedule would find more. Mine came from
eBay a year or so ago.
Walt Hutchens
KJ4KV